Okay, I’m tired of looking for help and ONLY finding advice on what to do if your child is expelled. I’m the child, and I want to know what I can do, not what my mother can, to attempt to make my situation better.
This is my side-

I was walking outside with a friend during lunch, which in itself is nothing new. We do this allot, but this time we got caught. A teacher saw us and reported it, and the officer was sent out to get us. When we saw the officer, we started to walk the other direction, but he called so we went to him and walked with him back to the school. Then they took me into the conference room in one of the sub schools, after being searched. They found a blade on me, which I had forgotten to take out of my pocket that day. Along with that, they found medical supplies in my bag.

I was treating a burn I got that had become infected cause I kept scratching it by dabbing the area with rubbing alcohol to disinfect it ; and then I would soak it in hydrogen peroxide and cover it up with a band-aid. I was borrowing these two bottles from a friend of mine, and since the burn is as healed as it is going to get, I was returning it to her and had left it in my bag.

So the school has three things against me, walking away from an officer, having the knife, and the medical supplies.
The law has one issue, since the knife was over 3 inches (It wasn’t exactly a kitchen knife, I have it for protection- I do allot of walking at night to get around). Hopefully I can get off okay with the law, since this is my first offense. If I’m lucky, I’ll end up with community service and a form of counseling.

The school has to take it more seriously though, being zero tolerance. So they have suspended me until they investigate further, and know whether I am being expelled or not. As of right now, I am suspended and cannot be on any of our county public school property (bus stops, etc). If they recommend me for expulsion, there will be a court trial which will determine whether I am expelled or not, and the details of the expulsion(if it is all county schools, just this school, if I can come back, etc).

I have to admit that the administrators handled it very well. My grade’s principle was a bit rash, but he has to be; its his job. Most of them actually treated me like a person, especially the Officer, and I respect them greatly for that. When you are dealing with someone who is doing something illegal or caught with something illegal, it is extremely easy to consider them beneath you and treat them like crap- and nobody will think twice about it.

I understand that there is probably nothing I can do, but can someone tell me how this process works, or at least a place to go to so that I can find out? At this point I’ve been recommended, and I want to at least know the process more thoroughly before the hearing.